Couple Making Love
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, March-May 1886
pencil, chalk, on paper, 26.6 cm x 22.1 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
- Object number
- d0303V1972r
- Dimensions
- 26.6 cm x 22.1 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, sometime between October 1886 and January 1887; after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren; agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State, 21 July 1962; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren, to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 17 May 1972; given on loan until the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973 to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from 2 June 1973 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994
- artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Frankfurt am Main, Schirn Kunsthalle, Esprit Montmartre. Die Bohème in Paris um 1900, 7 February-1 June 2014, no. zonder nr.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Vincent van Gogh. Die Pariser Zeichnungen, 22 March-16 June 2002
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Vincent van Gogh tekeningen. Antwerpen & Parijs, 1885-1888, 28 September 2001-6 January 2002, no. 272
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, Hollein, Max, Cate, Phillip Dennis, Bakker, Nienke, Hopmans, Anita, Esprit Montmartre : Bohemian life in Paris around 1900, 2014, p. 130, 195, 312